Shots From Düsseldorf

The Rhine

Like every year, I’m at a week-long CME event in Düsseldorf. When I’m not sitting in lectures and workshops, I roam the city in search of pictures:

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Motography

More than passing through

For the longest time, I’ve been trying to combine my two passions: motorcycle riding and photography. And failed at it, miserably.

Gear Disclosure

Klick through, I’m not posting this on the front page!

Color Loss and Gain

Ice Abstract

A word of warning first. You loose something when you get a Leica M monochrom.

Vodcasting from the Heart of Texas

May I introduce? Texas Leica.

A mixed bag of topics in this post. About two weeks ago, the Fuji GW6800III arrived from Japan.

Film Fetischism

Leica bondage

I realize I don’t bond with a digital camera like I do with an analog one. I even bought my M6 a decorative piece of rope yesterday …

Monochrom

They might as well have called it “Leica World”. They didn’t. Instead, they plonked a stone globe with a red dot on it down in the center of the roundabout in front of …

… Leitz Park! We are on the outskirts of Wetzlar in a building next to the Leica factory. I went there on Saturday to

Kodachrome™ for a New Age

Much easier to use than the book that props it up 😉

Though it looks to be one of a million digicams, the Sigma DP2 (and it’s DP1 and DP3 siblings) are a revolution in digital imagery. All on behalf of the Foveon sensor.

The Leica M Gestalt

In the 90-ties, Leica M cameras came in these spiffy, red velvet-lined presentation boxes. Just had to do a bit of Skript-Fu on that.

A film-loading Leica has it’s own Gestalt.

All Wrong, But Fabulous*

Pensive at the Fast Food Restaurant

These are heady times for photo gear geeks like me. The day before yesterday, Leica announced